Studio Building  No. 42
Boston  Mass
Oct. 23rd  1879
My dear Sir
In looking
over some letters to
day I found a postal
from you (sent May last)
making inquiries about
my Thoreau - Since
answering your favor
I have finished a
medallion portrait
life size of the Poet
Naturalist of Concord
which has met with
the approval of the





Concord Philosophers.
Mr. R. W. Emerson doing
me the honor of purchasing
the first copy.  Mr F. B.
Sanborn has another
copy and I am to
send one to a lady
in Indianapolis in
your state.  The press
has been very complimentary
in noticing the portrait
and say it is the
best that has been
made of him.
The copies are in
fine plaster finished in
such a manner as to be
washable, and are $25.00
with velvet frame or $20.00 without
frame.  I also have some





very fine photographs of the same by
H. G. Smith of Boston for $1.00 each.
To those who knew Thoreau and had
the privilege of listening to his rare
conversation and feeling the influence of
his philosophy, it is very gratifying to
find him read and appreciated so
widely; not only is he read at the West
but of late his writings have found
an appreciative circle of readers in
England.  By the way have you seen the
little volume by Paye (the English writer) on
Thoreau, I think you would be pleased





with the frank honest scholarly
manner in which he treats his
subject.
Please excuse me for being so
lengthy in my talk, my only excuse is that
the subject was for many years a dear
and highly prized friend, whose memory
awakens all that is true and noble in
humanity;  and whose influence on
the coming generations is destined to
be of great advantage.
I am my dear Sir
Very truly yours
Walton Ricketson
A. H. Dooley Esq






BOSTON MASS  OCT 24
A. H. Dooley  Esq
[crossed out]:  Terre Haute, Indiana
[new address]  Quincey, Illinois





QUINCY ILL  OCT 28 [postmark on back of envelope]
Picture of Thoreau  Ricketson [written on envelope back]